Eng 195 Q-Z

Front 1

A ----- is sheet of printing paper folded twice to form
eight separate pages for printing a book.

Back 1

Quarto

Front 2

Stanza or poem of four lines. A ---- usually has a
rhyme scheme, such as abab, abba, or abcb.

Back 2

Quatrain

Front 3

Writing instrument used before the invention of the
fountain pen, the ballpoint pen, and other writing
instruments.

Back 3

Quill

Front 4

Writing flaw in which unnecessary wording is used.
Examples: Wrong: Her dress was green in color. Right: Her
dress was green.

Back 4

Redundancy

Front 5

Stage direction in a play manuscript indicating the reentrance
onto the stage of a character or characters.

Back 5

Re-Enter

Front 6

Group of words repeated at key intervals in a poem, such as
Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night."

Back 6

Refrain

Front 7

In literature, a movement that stressed the presentation of
life as it is, without embellishment or idealization.

Back 7

Realism

Front 8

Quick, witty, often amusing reply; a conversation full of
witty replies; verbal fencing or sparring.

Back 8

Repartee

Front 9

Art of effectively using words in speech and writing; the
study of language and its rules. ----- can also refer to
insincere or deceptive language, as in this sentence: The
senator promised to tell the truth, but in his news
conference he spouted nothing but political -----.

Back 9

Rhetoric

Front 10

A special type of rhyme --- in which pairs of
words with different vowel sounds have the same final
consonants. Example: best, first.

Back 10

Rhyme, Consonant

Front 11

Rhyme in which the final syllable (or syllables) of one
line mimic the sound of the final syllable (or syllables)
of another line.

Back 11

Rhyme, End

Front 12

Form of rhyme in which the pronunciation of the last
syllable of one line is different from the pronunciation of
the last syllable of another line even though both
syllables are identical in spelling except for a preceding
consonant. For example, the following end-of-line word
pairs would constitute eye rhyme: cough, rough; cow, mow;
daughter, laughter; rummaging, raging.

Back 12

Rhyme, Eye

Front 13

Rhyme in which the final two syllables of one line mimic
the sound of the final two syllables of another line.
Examples: repeat, deplete; farrow, narrow; scarlet; varlet.
Rhyme, Internal Rhyme that occurs inside a line. Example:
The knell of the bell saddened me.

Back 13

Rhyme, Feminine

Front 14

Rhyme in which the final syllable of one line mimics the
sound of the final syllable of another line. Examples:
black, back; hell, well; shack, black.

Back 14

Rhyme, Masculine

Front 15

Novel in which real persons are thinly disguised as
fictional characters with fictional names. For example, if
an author wrote a ____ about the private lives of
movie stars, he would base the novel on the lifestyles of
real actors and actresses but give them fictitious names.

Back 15

Roman à Clef [ro MAH na KLEH]

Front 16

Long poem resembling an epic in its focus on heroic deeds.
Unlike an epic, however, a medieval romance is light in
tone, and its content is at times fantastic and magical. In
a medieval romance, chivalrous knights pay homage to lovely
ladies. The knights are often pure in heart and soul,
although sorely tempted by the wiles of beautiful women.
Often, the romance has merriment and singing. An example of
a medieval romance is “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.”

Back 16

Romance, Medieval

Front 17

In literature, a movement that championed imagination and
emotions as more powerful than reason and systematic
thinking. “What I feel about a person or thing,” a -----
poet might have said, “is more important than what
scientific investigation, observation, and experience would
say about that person or thing.”

Back 17

Romanticism

Front 18

Lyric poem consisting of three stanzas with a total of
fifteen lines.

Back 18

Rondeau

Front 19

Form of verbal irony that insults a person with insincere
praise.

Back 19

Sarcasm

Front 20

Literary work that attacks or pokes fun at vices and
imperfections; political cartoon that does the same.

Back 20

Satire

Front 21

Play In the drama of ancient Greece, a play that pokes fun
at a serious subject involving gods and myths; a parody of
stories about gods or myths.

Back 21

Satyr

Front 22

Plot outline of a play, opera, motion picture, or TV
program.

Back 22

Scenario

Front 23

(1) Part of an act of a play; (2) a settingin a literary
work, opera, or film; (3) a theater stage in ancient Greece
or Rome; (4) part of a literary work, opera, or film that
centers on one aspect of plot development.

Back 23

Scene

Front 24

Literary genre focusing on how scientific experiments,
discoveries, and technologies affect human beings for
better or worse.

Back 24

Science Fiction

Front 25

Old English poet often attached to a monarch's court. A
scop composed and recited his own poetry.

Back 25

Scop

Front 26

Stage direction in a play manuscript to signal a trumpet
flourish that introduces the entrance of a character, such
as the entrance of King Lear (Act 1) in Shakespeare's play.

Back 26

Sennet

Front 27

A flaw in a literary work or film in which the author
relies on tear-jerking or heart-wrenching scenes rather
than writing talent or cinematic skill to evoke a response
in readers.

Back 27

Sentimentality

Front 28

A clergyman's talk centering on a scriptural passage.

Back 28

Sermon

Front 29

Final six lines of a Petrarchan, or Italian, sonnet.

Back 29

Sestet

Front 30

----------- is the environment in which a story unfolds.

Back 30

Setting

Front 31

Latin word, meaning “thus,” inserted in a quoted statement
in a research work (essay, magazine article, doctoral
thesis, book, etc.) to indicate that the quotation contains
an error. Sic appears in brackets after the error.

Back 31

Sic

Front 32

Comparing one thing to an unlike thing by using like, as,
or than.

Back 32

Simile

Front 33

Recitation in a play in which a character reveals his
thoughts to the audience but not to other characters in the
play.

Back 33

Soliloquy

Front 34

Stage direction in a play manuscript indicating a character
is alone on the stage.

Back 34

Solus

Front 35

Form of lyric poetry invented in Italy that has 14 lines
with a specific rhyme scheme. The Italian Petrarchan sonnet
consists of an eight-line stanza (octave) and a six-line
stanza (sestet).

Back 35

Sonnet

Front 36

Shortened or contracted sonnet. A curtal sonnet consists of
eleven lines instead of the usual fourteen for the standard
56
Shakespearean or Petrarchan sonnet. An example of a curtal
sonnet is "Pied Beauty," by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Back 36

Sonnet, Curtal

Front 37

In a comedy (a play or an opera), a maid or servant girl
involved in intrigue affecting the central characters. She
usually has a quick tongue, common sense, and a good sense
of humor.

Back 37

Soubrette

Front 38

Fictional genre with a setting in the Southern United
States that vests its stories with foreboding and
grotesquerie. Begun in the twentieth century, -------- replaces the romanticism of nineteenth-century
Gothic works with realism.

Back 38

Southern Gothic

Front 39

Slip of the tongue in which a speaker transposes the
letters of words. Pee little thrigs is a ------------ for
three little pigs.

Back 39

Spoonerism

Front 40

A stanza with eight lines in iambic pentameter and a ninth
line in iambic hexameter. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
originated this format in his great allegorical poem The
Faerie Queene. The rhyme scheme of the stanza is ababbcbcc.

Back 40

Spenserian Stanza

Front 41

In a Greek play, a scene in which the chorus sings a song,
uninterrupted by dialogue.

Back 41

Stasimon (pronunciation: STASS uh mon)

Front 42

In Shakespeare's time, a book in which the English
government required printers to register the title of a
play before the play was published.

Back 42

Stationers' Register

Front 43

Lines that form a division or unit of a poem. Stanzas
generally have four lines.

Back 43

Stanza

Front 44

Character in a literary work or film who thinks or acts
according to certain unvarying patterns simply because of
his or her racial, ethnic, religious, or social background.
A stereotype is usually an image that society projects or
imposes on every member of a group as a result of prejudice
or faulty information.

Back 44

Stereotype

Front 45

In a stage play brief, alternating lines of dialogue spoken
in rapid-fire succession. It occurs frequently in Greek
drama, especially when characters are arguing or expressing
strong emotions.

Back 45

Stichomythia (stik uh MITH e uh)

Front 46

In Eighteenth Century Germany, a literary movement
characterized by a rejection of many classical literary
conventions (in particular the three classical unities
adhered to strictly by French writers but often ignored by
William Shakespeare), by great passion and enthusiasm, by
disquiet and impatience, and by an exposition of folk
themes.

Back 46

Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress)

Front 47

----- is the way an author writes a literary work. ----
manifests itself in the author’s choice of words and
phrases, the structure of sentences, the length of
58
paragraphs, the tone of the work, and so on.

Back 47

Style

Front 48

Secondary or minor plot in a story usually related to the
main plot.

Back 48

Subplot

Front 49

Anxiety about what will happen next in a story. In Poe's
short story "The Pit and the Pendulum," the main character
is strapped to a board in a dark cell while a pendulum in
the form of a steel blade swings over him. With each swing,
the pendulum descends closer to his body. The reader is
kept in suspense about how the character will free himself.

Back 49

Suspense

Front 50

In a literary work or film, a person, place, thing or idea
that represents something else.

Back 50

Symbol

Front 51

Omitting letters or sounds within a word. The word bos'n as
a shortened version of boatswain (a naval officer)

Back 51

Syncope

Front 52

Substitution of a part to stand for the whole, or the whole
to stand for a part. Examples: (1) The Confederates have
eyes in Lincoln's government. (The word "eyes" stands for
spies.) (2) Jack bought a new set of wheels. ("Wheels"
stands for a car.) (3) The law pursued the bank robbers
from Maine to Florida. ("Law" stands for police.)

Back 52

Synecdoche

Front 53

Use of an adjective associated with one sensation to
describe a noun referring to another sensation. Examples:
(1) a cold voice; (2) The closer the roses got to death,
the louder their scent (Toni Morrison, Beloved, Knopf,
1987).

Back 53

Synesthesia

Front 54

Wordiness, needless repetition. See also prolixity and
redundancy.

Back 54

Tautology

Front 55

In poetry, a unit of three lines that usually contain end
rhyme.

Back 55

Tercet

Front 56

Italian verse form invented by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
that consists of a series of three-line stanzas in which
Line 2 of one stanza rhymes with Lines 1 and 3 of the next
stanza.

Back 56

Terza Rima

Front 57

In the drama of ancient Greece, four plays (three tragedies
and one satyr play) staged by a playwright during a drama
competition.

Back 57

Tetralogy

Front 58

Open-air structure in which plays were performed. The stage
faced the afternoon sunlight to illuminate a performance
while allowing the audience to view the action without
squinting.

Back 58

Theater, Greek

Front 59

Acting area, or stage, in front of the skene.

Back 59

Proscenium

Front 60

Ground-level area where the chorus performed in front of
the proscenium.

Back 60

Orchestra

Front 61

Passage on the left or right through which the chorus
entered the orchestra. (Also, a song sung by the chorus
when it entered or the moment when the chorus enters.

Back 61

Parados

Front 62

Altar in the center of the orchestra used to make
sacrifices to Dionysus.

Back 62

Thymele

Front 63

Tiered seating area built into a hillside in the shape of a
horseshoe.

Back 63

Theatron

Front 64

Armlike device on the skene that could lower a "god" onto
the stage from the heavens.

Back 64

Machine

Front 65

Main idea of a literary work; the thesis.

Back 65

Theme

Front 66

Actor or actress. Also, an adjective referring to any
person or thing pertaining to Greek drama or drama in
general. The word is derived from Thespis, the name of a
Greek of the 6th Century B.C. who was said to have been the
first actor on the Greek stage.

Back 66

Thespian

Front 67

Prevailing mood or atmosphere in a literary work.

Back 67

Tone

Front 68

In Shakespeare's time, dressing rooms of actors behind a
wall at the back of the stage.

Back 68

Tiring House

Front 69

Stage direction in a Shakespeare play indicating that
entering characters are carrying lit torches.

Back 69

Torches

Front 70

Verse drama written in elevated language in which a noble
protagonist falls to ruin during a struggle caused by a
flaw (hamartia) in his character or an error in his rulings
or judgments.

Back 70

Tragedy

Front 71

Play that has tragic events but ends happily. Examples are
Shakespeare's “The Merchant of Venice,” “The Two Noble
Kinsmen,” and “Pericles, Prince of Tyre.”

Back 71

Tragicomedy

Front 72

Belief that every human being has inborn knowledge that
enables him to recognize and understand moral truth without
benefit of knowledge obtained through the physical senses.

Back 72

Transcendentalism

Front 73

(1) Play, novel, poem, skit, film, opera, etc., that
trivializes a serious subject or composition. Generally, a
------ achieves its effect through broad humor and
through incongruous or distorted language and situations.
Examples of works that contain travesty are Cervantes’s Don Quixote de La Mancha and Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (the Act V staging of “Pyramis and Thisbe” by the
bumbling tradesmen).

Back 73

Travesty

Front 74

Figure of speech; figurative language.

Back 74

Trope

Front 75

Lyric poet/musician of southern France or northern Italy;
minstrel.

Back 75

Troubadour

Front 76

is Latin for “where are.” The term is applied to
poetry that laments the passing of people, places, things,
or ideas by rhetorically asking where they are now in order to call attention to the inexorable passage of time and the inevitability of death, decay, and obsolescence.

Back 76

Ubi Sunt

Front 77

Three key elements of dramatic structure: time, place, and
action.

Back 77

Unities

Front 78

Appealing to readers and audiences of any age or any
culture.

Back 78

Universality

Front 79

Having the appearance of truth; realism.

Back 79

Verisimilitude

Front 80

Collection of lines (as in a Shakespeare play) that follow
a regular, rhythmic pattern.

Back 80

Verse

Front 81

Form of poetry popularized mainly in France in the 16th
Century. It usually expressed pastoral, idyllic sentiments
in imitation of the Italian villanella, a type of song for
singers and dancers that centered on rural, peasant themes.

Back 81

Villanelle

Front 82

Stage direction in a play manuscript indicating that a
person speaking or being spoken to is behind a door or
inside a room

Back 82

Within

Front 83

Use of one word (usually an adjective or a verb) to serve
two or more other words with more than one meaning.
Example: The dance floor was square, and so was the
bandleader’s personality. Explanation: Square describes the dance floor and the bandleader’s personality with different meanings.

Back 83

Zeugma